Letter to the editor

Published: February 19, 2005 12:00 AM

To students, voters and legislatorsEditor:This is an open letter to the Triway School District students and voters.To the students: You are the greatest bunch of students anywhere! You deserve a top-notch school system, led by people who care about you as individuals, as well as a group. You also deserve to be supported by the voters of our district. When levies fail, inevitably you come to doubt the quality of your future. Know that Triway people are resilient and resourceful. Hang in there, and continue to do your best you make us proud every day. Just look at our campus and draw encouragement, when you see what has been accomplished by the boosters of the athletic and music programs; see what Triway people can do when they put forth the effort.To the voters: Our community greatly needs to have a quality school system. Our reputation to the county and state at large, as well as our property values depend on this. How can we possibly put together such a quality system without adequate funding? We are disappointed that the most recent levy failed again. Are we sending a message to the leadership that we want change? I think this is likely, when 55 percent of the people who cared enough to come out to vote in a special election say "no." If you want change get busy and be a part of the solution! Communicate with school board representatives. Write to our state representatives and to the governor. Mandate changes for the better, and get involved to assure that this happens.To our state representatives: We badly need reform in how schools are funded. People are tired of the increasing burden of taxes, taxes and more taxes. You sold us the lottery as the Holy Grail to solve school funding for good then used the revenue for other purposes. Get creative and come up with a way for us to provide our children with the quality education they deserve. They deserve it now not months and years from now.Ray and Sandy ClineWooster